BETTENDORF, IOWA (October 9, 2024) — Silverstar Car Wash will host a ribbon-cutting to celebrate their third Quad Cities location on Friday, November 1, 2024, 12PM. This car wash is located at 3011 Devils Glen in Bettendorf, Iowa.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (October 8, 2024) — The Odyssey Experience is playing at Davenport Junior Theatre from Saturday, October 12, through October 20, 1PM and 4PM on Saturdays and 3PM on Sundays. The interactive sixty-minute play is based on Homer’s epic The Odyssey. The Junior Theatre cast includes 24 students ages ten through eighteen, led by Ashley Becher, our Artistic Director.

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA (October 8, 2024) — Heather Garvin PhD and Caroline VanSickle PhD, both faculty members in the Department of Anatomy at Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences, were recently invited to participate in a special symposium celebrating a decade of study of the fossils of the human relative, Homo naledi.

DES MOINES, IOWA (October 8, 2024) — The NFIB (National Federation of Independent Businesses) Small Business Optimism Index rose by 0.3 points in September to 91.5. This is the 33rd consecutive month below the fifty-year average of 98. The Uncertainty Index rose eleven points to 103, the highest reading recorded. Fifty-one percent of owners reported capital outlays in the last six months, down five points from August.